Louise Haigh, now the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said in 2019 that she campaigns in Westminster “every week” for “the people of Palestine and for the people of Kashmir“. She is now effectively the most powerful person in government after Burnham…
Haigh was dispatched by Corbyn to campaign for Labour candidate Lisa Forbes in the Peterborough by-election. It was held in June. She told the Muslim constituents in attendance:
“So, we need your help coming up to a week on Thursday to spread the word, to encourage your neighbours and your friends and your family to get out the vote, to make sure that we support Lisa so that she can come to Westminster and she can campaign alongside Naz, for the people of Palestine and for the people of Kashmir as we do week in week out in in Parliament.”
Andy Burnham has apologised for the Starmer government’s positioning on Israel and Gaza. How much further will he go?
Haigh – who has a fraud conviction – is set to have control of the new Office for the PM and Cabinet and has direct oversight of propriety, ethics, and national security in government as a whole. Whoopee for the people of Palestine and Kashmir…
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”